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  • THE BURNING MAZE (THE TRIALS OF APOLLO BOOK 3)
    THE BURNING MAZE (THE TRIALS OF APOLLO BOOK 3)
    RICK RIORDAN
    I WAS A GOD, ONCE. UNTIL I WAS CAST OUT BY MY FATHER, ZEUS. NOW I'M AN AWKWARD MORTAL TEENAGER CALLED LESTER. My way out? A series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. For my third mission, I must- Journey through the Labyrinth to free an Oracle who only speaks in puzzles. Which sounds easy. Then, defeat the most vicious of three very vicious Roman Emperors. Is that all...
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  • POPOL VUH P
    POPOL VUH P
    ADRIÁN RECINOS
    This is the first complete version in English of the "Book of the People" of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian America is in many ways comparable to the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. Generally regarded as America's oldest book,...
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  • SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO
    SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO
    RIE QUDAN
    Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm - and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort. Acclaimed architect Sara Machina has been tasked with designing the city's new centrepiece, but is riven by doubt. As she casts her mind to the terrible crime she e...
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    13,75 €

  • DANDELION WINE
    DANDELION WINE
    RAY BRADBURY
    "He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. Douglas smiled. He pointed a finger. There, and there. Now over here, and here...Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. A sprinkle of windows cam...
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    12,50 €

  • WE
    WE
    YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
    The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha GessenYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ...
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  • JUJUTSU KAISEN: THE OFFICIAL ANIME GUIDE: SEASON 1
    JUJUTSU KAISEN: THE OFFICIAL ANIME GUIDE: SEASON 1
    GEGE AKUTAMI / JUJUTSU KAISEN PRODUCTION COMMITTEE
    The official companion to the first season of the hugely popular Jujutsu Kaisen anime.The official companion to the first season of the hugely popular Jujutsu Kaisen anime.Enter the world of jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits with Jujutsu Kaisen: The Official Anime Guide: Season 1. Based on the hugely popular manga series by Gege Akutami, this guide to the Jujutsu Kaisen anim...
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    18,75 €

  • THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS
    THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS
    RUPI KAUR
    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of...
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  • THE WHITE ALBUM
    THE WHITE ALBUM
    JOAN DIDION
    Annotation. This comprehensive edition brings together three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVE Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into t...
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    12,50 €

  • THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONS OF ST LOUIS
    THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONS OF ST LOUIS
    RALPH WEAVER
    This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerous militia. The cause of the war was a revolution in Spain in 1820 which brought in a 'Liberal' government and the Spanish parliame...
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    31,25 €

  • HIERO'S JOURNEY
    HIERO'S JOURNEY
    STERLING E. LANIER
    The world ended. People survived. Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath-and a highly trained killer. Five thousand years after the apocalyptic event known only as The Death, Hiero is tasked with finding the secrets of the old world, which could protect his civilisation from massing enemies. The planet is not the same as it used to be. Mutations have changed the way huma...
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    13,75 €

  • FIFTH SUN
    FIFTH SUN
    CAMILLA TOWNSEND
    In November 1519, Hernando CortÃ(c)s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native American...
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    23,10 €

  • AFRICONOMICS
    AFRICONOMICS
    BRONWEN EVERILL
    'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A Continent We need to think differently about African economics. For centuries, Westerners have tried to 'fix' Af...
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    13,75 €

  • SORRY NOT SORRY
    SORRY NOT SORRY
    SOPHIE RANALD
    'Absolutely brilliant... I devoured it in a few hours because it was impossible to put down... Be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions... Had me laughing all the way through... Perfect.' Goodreads Reviewer Is this all there is? I scraped the last dregs of Caramel Chew Chew ice cream out of the bottom of the tub with my finger and licked it. It left a sticky smear on my pho...
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    13,75 €

  • THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND
    THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND
    DAPHNE DU MAURIER
    In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his frien...
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    19,95 €

  • ALONE ON A WIDE WIDE SEA
    ALONE ON A WIDE WIDE SEA
    MICHAEL MORPURGO
    How far would you go to find yourself? When orphaned Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII, he loses his sister, his country & everything he knows. The coming years test him to his limits, as he endures mistreatment, neglect & forced labour in the Australian outback. But Arthur is saved by his love of the sea. ...
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    7,95 €

  • THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    JOHN STEINBECK
    John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it ...
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    12,50 €

  • FLIRTY DANCING
    FLIRTY DANCING
    JENNIFER MOFFATT
    Sparks fly in this summer romp for fans of Casey McQuiston when dancers at a Catskills resort try to pull off the perfect show, and find happiness and a place where they belong on the way.Archer Read is 27 and desperate to find his place in life. Five months ago, he quit his soul-destroying accounting job in Ohio and moved to Manhattan with dreams of making it on Broadway. And ...
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    18,75 €

  • WHITE BOOTS AND MINISKIRTS
    WHITE BOOTS AND MINISKIRTS
    JACKY HYAMS
    The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture has turned London into the most swinging city on earth. Youthful energy and boundless optimism are everywhere. Whatever you wa...
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    9,99 €

  • OLIVER TWIST
    OLIVER TWIST
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workho...
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    22,95 €

  • WHOOPS!
    WHOOPS!
    JOHN LANCHESTER
    There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crunch has that effect: you can grasp it while it's going on, and then as soon as it's over, you can no longer remember the difference between a CDO, a CDS, an MBS,...
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  • NEVER LET ME GO
    NEVER LET ME GO
    KAZUO ISHIGURO
    As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind h...
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    12,50 €

  • CARMEN
    CARMEN
    PROSPER MÉRIMÉE
    When the Basque dragoon Don José meets a Gypsy woman at the factory he is guarding, he is immediately ensnared by her wiles. After she is arrested for injuring a co-worker and he helps her to flee, he is imprisoned and demoted, but she repays him at their next meeting with a day of excess and a night of love. As Carmen continues to exert her spell, José is dragged further and f...
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    8,75 €

  • TANGLED UP IN YOU
    TANGLED UP IN YOU
    CHRISTINA LAUREN
    Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she's read, Ren has never found one that's taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twent...
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  • THE CITY AND THE STARS
    THE CITY AND THE STARS
    ARTHUR CHARLES CLARKE
    Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE STARLESS SEA
    THE STARLESS SEA
    ERIN MORGENSTERN
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn p...
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    12,50 €

  • MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE
    MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE
    JENNA LEVINE
    THE BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY ROOMATE IS A VAMPIRE... AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW! It started with a fake date. Now true love is at stake . . . Amelia Collins is tired of constant questions about her non-existent dating life, so she decides to get everyone off her back once and for all by finding someone - anyone - to pose as her date to a family weddin...
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    12,50 €

  • LAZARILLO DE TORMES AND THE SWINDLER
    LAZARILLO DE TORMES AND THE SWINDLER
    ANON. ANON. ANON. / FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
    The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populated by unsavoury beggars, corrupt priests, eccentrics, whores and criminals. Both Lazarillo de Tormesand Pablos and the swindler are determined to attain the trappings of the gentleman, but have little time for the gentlemanly ideals ...
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  • THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
    THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
    RICHARD OSMAN
    'Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so VERY funny' Marian Keyes 'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' Ian Rankin 'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' Mark Billingham 'A gripping read' Sunday Times THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING, MULTI MILLION COPY SELLING SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN ---------------------------------------------- In a peaceful retireme...
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    12,50 €

  • DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF
    DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF
    ANONYMOUS
    Hurt people. Hurt people. Say Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and somehow they met in Bright Lights Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. ...
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  • THE LETTERS OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
    THE LETTERS OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
    GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
    Appearing in a single volume for the very first time, an illuminating and enrichingly annotated selection of correspondence from one of Western literature's most revered writers. "If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert's correspondence," Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert's letters, "it is that the...
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    28,75 €